Lowest Terms

Famous quotes containing the words lowest terms, lowest and/or terms:

    I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.... I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.
    Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve (1877–1965)

    The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)